Teaching, rebuking, correcting & training in righteous web design.
Yes, I am bit of an API junkie. Anyone whose followed my blog since 2002 probably has gone blind once or twice reading posts about SOAP, XML-RPC, RSS feed and other such fun.
So why should anyone be surprised that today I’m providing a quick how-to code snippet of some fun I’m having with the Twitter Search API, REST, jQuery and jSON?
Strategy is the immutable forest. Tactics vary with circumstances, like as do individual trees in the forest. Learn the difference and how it impacts your organization’s social media activities.
Twitter, Facebook, Myspace. If you’re using any of these tools to communicate from the summer mission field, then communicate with me. FriendFeed, Orkut, Tumblr, Linkedin, Bebo too. I’ve been asked to write a major Christian publication – so if you’re using a social network to talk to the folks back at home, then please take a moment to talk to me.
Here’s another lesson we can take from Twitters poor handling of their @ replies notification setting problem: don’t tell users that they’re the problem when it is your system that’s sick (e.g.#FixReplies + #TwitterFail vs. #TwitterLied)
Twitter, in fiddling around with their @ replies notification setting, created a firestorm of outrage among the known twitterverse manifesting itself into to hash mark campaigns entitled ‘#fixreplies’ and ‘#twitterfail’ respectively.
Twitter gives our mundane lives meaning, that’s why it beat the snot out of a more ‘feature-rich’ Pownce.
To prove my point, let’s rewind about a year and a half ago to Tamar Weinberg’s comparison entitled ‘Twitter vs. Pownce: Who Pwns?‘ Dutifully she does what many of us do while shopping for software, cars, and food [...]
Ever get that annoying email from a church, friend, and/or family member who ‘accidentally’ sent a rant to everyone in their address book and/or a group-related email directory? Here’s how I respond to one such instance of a Christian SPAM email bombing run. Feel free to copy or link them to it my post to educate them on why this is such a poor practice of netiquette.
Now that the new Twitter user interface (UI) has had a few days to shake itself out, here are 5 things I think the webmasters of church and charity websites might learn from Twitter’s simple, yet effective changes:
